skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd never heard of Daily.co before. Looks great! Nice work.

I'm about to start building out an idea I've had based on WebRTC/MediaSoup/nginx-RTMP and ffmpeg. (But not for 'live' video calls though).

And having just seen your Jobs page, I think I might drop you guys a line, once I've got something working. ;)
What they did is the antithesis of their name. What a time to be alive.
aggregate customer exposure means that massive simultaneous losses by retail traders following the herd can mean losses for RH, which they want to prevent.
All good points.

Clearly if reasonable security is a goal default trust should be restricted. Minimum trust thresholds should be distinct from sometimes-needed trust which should be delineated on a per-item/per-session/temporally restricted basis.

Currently the way the web works, 1st party user downloading almost any 2nd party file means a 3rd party app of user-defined identity starts and reads the 2nd party file from a 4th party server in a 5th party format running on a 6th party OS with a 7th party network, 8th party browser and 9th+ party certificate chain in an unknown filesystem context. What is wrong with this picture? You can't establish trust in this context. All you can do is establish boundaries for failure.

Modern history has shown that this tower-of-crap™ approach is the most commercially expedient means to distribute new functionality to general computing devices. I would argue that the path forward in general computing is therefore to work on processes to enhance and apply those restrictions using improved architectural decisions at the interface level combined with CI/CD processes that automatically apply them.

In short: stop asking the user, just design the system to grossly limit the scope and impact of any damage.
Exactly. The entire market should be impacted equally. A brokerage making this decision is problematic. I'd fear now the WSB gang turns to class action lawsuit on RH et al for preventing them from exiting their positions, after ... well, allowing them to enter those positions. You know, the job of a brokerage.
Typically they're not installed in cities, but rather on connecting roads between cities.
I read, and re-read the article and I am yet to understand how a protocol will help what the author describes in the first few paragraphs. (BTW very nicely walked around that hot bowl of mess!)

First, Usenet was just as much of a dumpster fire as Reddit et al. in some branches (alt. I am looking at you). The rest (comp. soc. sci. etc) were heavily self moderated.

Second, I am not sure the author is clear on what is the primary product of social media, as I see it. We, the users are the product. By moving to a protocol, there is little to no opportunity to capture private information about the product. (Not complexity, too big, or filter bubble.)

Why would a platform give up such income stream?

Am I misunderstanding what the author means by protocol here?
I think it's similar to old school 4chan, mostly chaotic neutral in alignment. Today's 4chan is little more than a far-right forum.
Okay, thanks for the feedback, we'll definitely spend some time talking about it.
A handful of speculators were hurt. Now the WSB crowd is facing a large loss -- and guess who they are losing all that money to? You can bet that hedge funds with "dry powder" jumped on the opportunity to take short positions on GME as they watched the price and implied volatility balloon. All the people buying options and buying the underlying stock -- who do you think they were buying from?
Quite a bit of difference from markets being influenced by outside events and the market being influenced by your gamified platform.
Or epinephrine (e.g. EpiPens)?
Then they can enact a moritorium on leverage buys to protect themselves. They have no liability for clients who are buying without leverage.
I am not attaching a judgement to my assessment. It's just an observation that equites are worth more when money supply increase and new business opportunities are difficult to come by.

If you have a box producing 4k usd per year people may want to pay around 100k for it on normal times but when you can't find any other investments and the government is pumping money into the economy then suddenly the box becomes way more valuable. It's after all better to buy it for 150k even if it produces 3k instead of 4k than to just your money in the bedroom mattress. This same mechanism that causes stocks to rally every time a big player (EU or US) announces another QE round
none of my statements goes against learning history.

I probably don't do as much as I could/should... but I am a successful programmer who has never needed "history" to understand basic programming principles.

I seem to consider history and good engineering to be different topics while everyone else seems to think you can't understand Big O, YAGNI, SOLID, the difference between Functional Programming and Procedural programing, etc, etc, etc without understanding the history of how assembly turned into c...

Because History is interesting... but not needed to be a good engineer and a good programmer.
This is exactly what they should have done immediately when these stocks started to make no sense.

150% moves would be maybe a rough estimate.

Markets need to be protected from manipulation.

Not allowing purchases from robinhood does not punish retail traders more than institutions.

There was NO legitimate reason for the price on these stocks. By limiting purchases they are preventing their clients from getting into a trade that will almost certainly result in losses.

"the short sellers" could very well be other retail investors. I personally shorted GME & AMC when they hit ridiculous prices (I lost money on these trades when they became 2x ridiculous)
By "lack of higher order functionality" you mean the typeclasses, right?

I should have formulated the question in a better way; my students probably won't take another shot at FP for a looong time after this course, so I don't want them to lose too much on the more "fun" parts of FP, because they might just never see them if I don't show them.

So I was wondering what limitations would Elm impose, apart from the typeclasses, compared to Purescript (Haskell).
It’s a Science Fiction cliche, but automating lethal actions eliminates the psychological and political cost of eternal warfare.

Banning automated lethal systems never had anything to do with concerns over their efficacy or accuracy. It’s interesting the people quoted in the article have reframed the debate around technical goals, instead of around basic morality.
Good point. Hedge funds pay for things that are ostensibly public, but with very high entry points, to understand the market - witness satellite surveilling of Chinese factory activity, Walmart parking lots, laying private fiber.

WSB was the very definition of public information, open social media.
Yep, and they only charge you $75 to leave!
All robinhood orders go to Citadel for execution because that is how they make money. Citatel just bailed out Melvin who shorted GME https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/27/hedge-fund-targeted-by-reddi... So the call to Robinhood was probably from Citadel. It's disgusting that instead of saying just this, they hypocritically "protected" their users.
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Robinhood is currently operating under Restricting the GME stock. The only option is to sell, there are no 'buy options'
EU: “big tech is stealing your data. Don’t worry, we’ll fight for your rights and protect you “

Also EU: “big tech is encrypting your data, so we cannot look at it when we feel like it. Don’t worry, we’ll make it open, so we can check on you“

Out of those two, I’m much more comfortable with big tech having control over my data. Sure, they’ll use it to make more money, but they won’t use it to put me in jail.
You know that your dream is actually the standard in every developed nation except the US right?
If that's the only criteria lot of social media sites would get hit
Your parents don't even have to be wealthy. Just having parents who are financially stable, own their house, could literally keep you off the streets and give you food if you fell on truly hard times, makes an enormous difference compared to not having that.
Lessons learned from writing a tech book
> missing piece

But it's not a missing technical piece. It's just that FOSS is terrible at paying experts to do the work necessary to design a service usable by non-technical folks.

In other words, I think people look at the problem you've described and assume that it must be open research because no unpaid dev has posted a hobby project to Github to solve it. But that wouldn't be an accurate conclusion-- in fact everyone has used Google's annoying hairball of sophisticated, hidden techniques which solves pretty much this problem (and probably other problems as well).

You wouldn't need anything as sophisticated as that. But you do need to pay experts the going rate to design, implement, test, and tweak such a service.

If any FOSS orgs had the foresight and funding to do this, I believe it would reveal that all commercial social media networks including Reddit haven't "solved" this problem simply because it isn't in their financial interest to do so.
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@EdwinLarkin: "The only reason corporate embraced open source is that it saw it as a way to drive the small and medium sized businesses out of the market. Why pay for an editor when the good guy Microsoft gives it to you for free? People have been delusional about FOSS for way too long."

Is that you billg ;]

https://www.debian.org/
https://getfedora.org/
https://antixlinux.com/ .. systemD free :]
This isn't really newsworthy - running an office is law: https://www.archives.gov/about/laws/former-presidents.html
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It's not deleted.
> most people assuming the stock market would rebound

No, people / pundits / the media were widely proclaiming that the healthcare system would be overrun and the next great economic depression was upon us. Most people assumed the stock market would continue to fall.
Yeah I don't understand why so many people are defending a ponzi scheme. Its in at least 90% of Robinhood users interest to not be able to buy GME right now.
No because the price will normalize in the long run which is the only solid investment strategy. This valuation was created by out of thin air and will disappear into just that. If anything it shows that the market is rife with opportunity where people are overvaluing/undervaluing something
To be honest, the main reason I went for something so old is that 1) I had them in my collection of random electronics and 2) the newest computer that full documentation for every component in the system is available for is not a new machine.

Current computers tend to be massive black boxes. I've learned so much about random hardware by reading Linux kernel drivers when the documentation is under NDA.
An orange dildo.
> isn’t there precedent to halt trading when markets get too volatile?

There are mechanisms in place that do this automatically. It's done at the exchange level and includes ALL trades (buy and sell) on a particularly volatile stock. This is functioning normally. GME has been halted many times over the past few days.

But what OP is describing is not that. This is retail brokerages, where normal people buy and sell, disabling the "buy" on certain stocks and only allowing "sell". Without the ability to buy, the stock price can only go one way; Down.
I'd wonder, if given the market dynamics, the whole sharade will unwind into even lower price of the underlying stock than at what it was before the "activity". I can't see how this could help GME or other stocks picked for this ride.

I totally get the emotional value of these stocks and the hit they took due to the pandemic. This just feels that they are used as pawns and somehow this recent emotional tension is being harvested for some other than the proclaimed purpose (to support the stocks).
The true fifth estate in the making, it seems?
Excellent point and also a very important one!
I think a lot of tech companies would benefit from having a team that does nothing but install and run old software and operating systems to mine them for good features that have been forgotten.
I'm not so sure.

I think to put a finer point on it, if you grow up in an environment where your family expects you to succeed and be wealthy, where your peers are expected to also succeed and be wealthy it gives you both the training, the knowledge, and drive to succeed. Never mind the means (dosh) to higher education.

In the U.S. my parent's were working class, broken home. Neither parents had ever invested, knew anything about 401Ks, Roth IRAs, neither owned their own home, knew about mortgages....

So I was beginning at square one and had to teach myself all these things, pay for my own college, etc.

Unless "networks and connections" allow you access to the Next Level (and I have observed this may in fact be true, allowing some to "fail upward") I think the bigger hurdle is not having the environment that gives you an investing and monetary success mindset.

I have taught my children as best I can. We'll see how this experiment plays out with the next generation....
Don't forget that there's reasonable evidence that the FBI (or one or more rogue FBI agents) tried blackmailing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. into committing suicide.[0]

Can you imagine if they had a magic button that would instantly open and read all of Dr. King's letters and phone calls? I don't think he would have committed suicide, but they really could and would have smeared him in the press and wrapped him up for years standing trial for one tiny infraction after another.

Did they ever figure out who turned on the lawful intercept capability on Greek phone switches to illegally wiretap Grook politicians? (I think it was Greece, in the early-to-mid 2000s.) Edit: it looks like the NSA[1], but I remember reading speculation that it was organized criminals.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2...
Sure that is possible. I have not seen anything indicating that is the case being made with AMC etc.
"This is Wall Street, Dr. Burry, if you offer us free money, we are going to take it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxjdj5_5yNM
Timely: https://apple.news/AAoRa9PkARZyCjIe6FE8uGQ

Drop me an email? Would love to catch up / collab. Add Netscape.net to my username.
The short sellers were shorting with no regard to the company's fundamentals, either. It's all about power and market manipulation on all sides.
'If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?'

Every now and then an article about research on that topic pops up which attributes success from 'Chance'[1] to 'Personality'[2] and everything in between[3].

[1]https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/03/01/144958/if-youre-...

[2]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-12-22/if-you...

[3]https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2015/02/02/if-youre-so...
Rosa Parks was, as I understand it, a carefully planned stunt, which happened to get the media traction necessary. There was another person who did the exact same thing a short time before RP did, but that person was, IIRC, punished and forgotten.
Worth pointing out that nearly every major trading firm has blocked buying of Gamestop and AMC stock today. I really am hoping to see legal action against the entire industry for literal stock manipulation. This isn't limiting purchasing, it's full-on stopping and only allowing selling. That's insane.
We as a technology community should know this better than anyone. If you are getting a service for free, then you are not the customer.
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I didn't but a large portion of retail investors are likely amateurs.
Simple, you sell to the shorts.

You see?
It's so bizarre to me that people think that the only thing libertarians can advocate for have to do with government.
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"Everyone"? Isn't that the community college that Jared Kushner went to?
This is unlikely. The regulators are on the side of the financial institutions since the unusual activity is coming from retail traders.

The NASDAQ CEO, Anna Friedman has already said they will stop trading on a stock if they match chatter from social media with a stock's movement. Her justification is to allow them "time to investigate" the situation.

SEC lawyers have stated also that justification for investigation come when "volatile trading fuelled by opinions where there appears to be little corporate activity to justify [price movements]".

It's a ridiculous assertion since several banks and funds use alternate data sources to inform their buy and sell decisions. These alternate, or non-traditional, sources of data are usually many steps removed from corporate company announcements and news headlines.

Saying all that to say that legal positions are shoring up on the side of the exchanges and professionals.
The causation v correlation here just raises more questions, wouldn’t “smart” people inclined towards entrepreneurship become smart parent and reinforce the tradition?
I don't think it's a big deal. But bunker list would avoid this particular misinterpretation

btw, I like the idea. Or I think I do, because I'm not signing up before I get a chance to test it. This is a very common - and very legitimate - complaint on Show HN posts. You need to give people a chance to work with it - play around a little - before they sign up

Good luck!
From this angle, a UBI is even more powerful, in that it will go a lot further in areas that are less economically productive, and let us use "surplus" housing there.

Ideally we'd just let more people live closer together like they want to, but the elites won't let more people get close to them.
Also see https://htmx.org/ for a library that progressively enhances web pages by getting HTML fragments from the server.
I'm pretty happy they are doing it. This is really in the best interest of the average Robinhood user trying to buy GME right now. Maybe they shouldn't completely ban it, but there should be at least very extreme warnings about why its a terrible idea to buy.
> from brands which doesn't seem to exhibit hypocrisy when it comes their values

This is a strong accusation. Which of those brands are recommended by the FSF [0]? Which of them are actually trying to change the industry with their investments (promoting freedom/privacy) [1]? Which of them are fighting against planned obsolescence by providing lifetime updates [2]? Given all that I am not sure who is a hypocrite.

> So ditching smartphones for a portable computer might be even a good option

Librem 5 is a portable computer [3].

[0] https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v11/

[1] https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/

[2] https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...

[3] https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-desktop-convergence/
So the exact opposite of what the real Robinhood would do?
There's almost no volume. About 60% of Robinhood's userbase owns GME and all of them are blocked from buying more.
The entire summer long while buildings burned, and entire cities looted by violent murdering thugs it was called "peaceful protests".

Then when some actual peaceful protesters go to a legitimate politically organized rally in clown outfits in Washington brandishing American flags and are literally ushered into the buildings by security it's portrayed by the lying media as serious military coup attempt. To quote Biden: "Gimme a break man."
look at GME today, a lot of late arrivals have just lost a lot of money. they are probably not professional traders
I believe it is also the clearinghouses clamping down on them. I got a notice from Tasty earlier today explaining it.

Note: I am not involved in this Gamespot show in any way.
There won't be any serious investigation leading to a bombshell revelation like "Citadel told Robinhood to stop buying in $GME." The same people pressuring RH, Discord, etc are also quite adept at pressuring politicians and regulators.

There will probably be some hearings for show, but nothing more.
> different cryptographic tradition

...Thats not how maths works... cryptography is just math.
> But if the tech scene is really a meritocracy, why are so many of its key players, from Mark Zuckerberg to Steve Jobs, white men?

I disagree with the author that Jobs and Zuckerberg are evidence that meritocracy is a myth. According to Wiki:

> ... Zuckerberg excelled in classes. After two years, he transferred to the private school Phillips Exeter Academy, where he won prizes in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and classical studies.

> By the time he was ten, Jobs was deeply involved in electronics and befriended many of the engineers who lived in the neighborhood. He had difficulty making friends with children his own age, however...

Later in life, they had great ideas, took huge risks (both dropping out of school), and worked hard.
I really wonder if a court would entertain a temporary injunction forcing RH to reverse this move.

Temporary equitable relief seems justifiable here -- not a slam dunk but not outside the realm. Especially with the circumstantial evidence that RH is acting against its customers at the benefit of some of its owners.

And surely RH wasn't so dumb to tell Citadel or anyone about this move in advance. Wouldn't that be a serious insider trading claim if they opened any short positions after learning about the move but before it became public?
"Resist the urge to appear smart"
I liked Ars Technica's analysis of what happened. The TL,DR is that if a company's stock is so heavily shorted, so much so that the number of "borrowed" shares exceeds the number of liquid shared available, and it is not on the verge of going bankrupt, this kind of short squeeze is possible and you can get a feedback mechanism going to make the price soar, at least in the short term.

If Wall Street wants to address this, they could put limits on the number of shares that can be shorted.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/01/the-complete-morons-g...
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While you have a few examples of drop outs (Zuck, gates, etc) the vast majority of those famous entrepreneur went to college.

Not a requirement, but increases your chances a lot.
That doesn't make any sense because they still allowed them to sell, realizing a loss. Why not stop buying and selling?
It's also highly cultural; if the people around you that you see as role models are serious about business, connections, management, etc. that's what you pursue. And higher management comes more naturally to people who have spent their childhood in an ethical framework that divides people into manageable units, too.

My working class / middle class parents just didn't have room in their worldview for having employees, nor would they feel comfortable delegating their household aspects to maids and the like. When we had kids my wife and I couldn't imagine having a nanny (despite being able to afford it) while many of those around us didn't blink at it.

I remember working at a startup in the 00s and having to peel out of the office every day at 5:30 to get my daughter from daycare and my (silver spoon raised) boss saying something like "we need to pitch into get you a nanny" and it struck me then how that kind of thing was really tied to "entrepreneurship." I didn't _want_ a nanny, I liked my daughter's daycare, and I very much enjoyed picking her up and getting my hug at the end of her day of play and learning with a group of kids.

Connections, money, yes, but also a managerial/directive ethic, no qualms about telling other people what to do and paying as little as possible for it.
Why is that so? Trading volume was over 175 million each of Friday, Monday, and Tuesday. Do we have some way of knowing exactly what the price should be when they exit?